Current book: Dana Grigorcea’s “Die not Die”, a vampire novel from modern Romania – culture

Really now? Count Dracula as a fictional character in a book in 2021? From the pen of the German author Dana Grigorcea, who was born in Romania in 1979 and lives in Switzerland. It tells the story of a young woman whose lust longs for a physical union with the Prince of Darkness, with Vlad the Impaler, with Count Dracula. Much more cliché is hardly possible. And yet this book should be read because it has a surprising number of levels.

It can be read as an exciting horror novel in the sequel to Bram Stoker. A young woman returns from

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